The second workshop of the ESF Member Organisation Forum on Evaluation of Funding Schemes and Research Programmes took place on 31 March - 1 April 2008. It was kindly hosted by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) of Italy at its headquarters in Rome.
Opening and Welcoming
by: Roberto Petronzio, INFN President
Setting the scene and structure of the workshop, Neil Williams, European Science Foundation |
Session I: Indicators in Evaluation of Funding Schemes and Recent Studies
Evaluation tools for mission-oriented research. An experimental approach to develop a framework for evaluation and management instrument - Elisabeth de Turckheim, INRA, France | |
Evaluating the impact of research in Arts and Humanities, Lisa Hill, AHRC, United Kingdom | |
Introducing the parallel sessions on quantitative indicators in ex-post evaluation, Anke Reinhardt, DFG, Germany |
Session II: Parallel Sessions on Quantitave Indicators in ex-post evaluation
Session A: Indicators in evaluation of research institutions
Facilitator: Claudia Heilman-Sennhenn, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Session B: Indicators to evaluate funding schemes
Facilitator: Jürgen Güdler, DFG, Germany
Session III: International Initiatives on RTD Evaluation
Update on the evaluation of the EC Framework programme and the European RTD Evaluation Network, Peter Fish, European Commission | |
OECD activities in R&D + innovation evaluation, Dong Hoon Oh, OECD | |
Working Group of the European Academies on Research Evaluation, Jack Spaapen, KNAW, the Netherlands |
Session IV: The Use of Progress and final reports in indicator-building for ex-post evaluation of funding schemes
Collecting and using project output data at the FWF, Rudolf Novak, FWF, Austria | |
Annual and final project reports at the NSF: contents and uses, Jill Schamberger, NSF OIG, USA | |
Final reports: current practice and future plans for their use as an information source on results of DFG funded projects, Jürgen Güdler, DFG, Germany | |
How final project reports are used at the ESRC, Margaret Macadam, ESRC, United Kingdom | |
Evaluation at CNR - Auto-evaluation annual reports, Sarah Chen and Alessandra Stilo, CNR, Italy | |
Use of Progress reports in ex-post evaluation at TÜBITAK, Mehmet Arif Adli, TÜBITAK, Turkey |
Closing session
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